Myself and a group of fellow bonsai enthusiasts recently had the chance to talk with the owner of a local forrest management company and actually got permission to scour their 8,000+ acres of Forrest for yamadori material, although after an entire week spent with over 6 hours a day in the woods we found nothing suitable it was still a fun experience. After talking with the owner afterwords he made us aware that there is over 1,000,000 acres of land in the state that is owned by dozens of forrest management companies and that we should put together some sort of introduction "this is what we do" type letter to send to all of them to see which ones would let us hunt yamadori in their forests.
As you can probably tell by the already growing length of this post with run-on thoughts and rambling, I myself am not the greatest at those kinds of things. So I had the idea over breakfast today that maybe as a community we could work on putting something together that everyone, everywhere could use as a template or letter that could be presented to land owners explaining what yamadori is, how its collected, guidelines, species, etc. etc. Something that lets them know that most yamadori hunters are respectful of the forest, and do not just chop down trees just because, something that lets them know what makes a yamadori something that we would collect or lets them know exactly what we are looking for, and all that jazz. In short, just a nice letter that would help us yamadori lovers open the door to gaining access to new places to hunt for yamadori.
If anybody is interested in contributing in terms of a little writing, or maybe you have some pictures you took of a tree still in the ground before collecting from a forest we can use for visuals, or has anything they want to contribute at all, please let me know here. I am hoping if we can get this done, we can publish it here for everyone to use across the whole community.
Thanks
As you can probably tell by the already growing length of this post with run-on thoughts and rambling, I myself am not the greatest at those kinds of things. So I had the idea over breakfast today that maybe as a community we could work on putting something together that everyone, everywhere could use as a template or letter that could be presented to land owners explaining what yamadori is, how its collected, guidelines, species, etc. etc. Something that lets them know that most yamadori hunters are respectful of the forest, and do not just chop down trees just because, something that lets them know what makes a yamadori something that we would collect or lets them know exactly what we are looking for, and all that jazz. In short, just a nice letter that would help us yamadori lovers open the door to gaining access to new places to hunt for yamadori.
If anybody is interested in contributing in terms of a little writing, or maybe you have some pictures you took of a tree still in the ground before collecting from a forest we can use for visuals, or has anything they want to contribute at all, please let me know here. I am hoping if we can get this done, we can publish it here for everyone to use across the whole community.
Thanks
